Military Pentathlon Jørstadmoen 2025
September 23, 2025
what - how - why?
Brief recap from the lecture
Your working demand.
Longer assignment..
Workshop:
Start strong, end stronger
End stronger: agenda - point at what we have learned, create highlight –> ask people what they have learned to get an summary
How did you feel to day: look at the progression, make people see the progression
REDUCE the fade out of workshops.
Be confident - only one way of doing this workshop
Parking lot - save issues so they feel head and makes them more relaxed.
Working with the training plan?
1 hour group work
1 hour presentation
(Figure from: Billing and Drain 2017; Drain and Reilly 2019)
Occupational task requirements
Requirements are many for the modern soldier
If you had to lead a mission tomorrow, what physical skills would you most rely on?
Occupational task requirements, can you mention some occupational tasks you will
What is your working demand in your field of expertise?
Discussion in two-three persons;
Why fitness is more that just passing physical training tests?
Elaborate; “Introduction to the idea of “functional” fitness vs. “test” fitness”
Strength capacity
Endurance capacity
Discussion;
“How does your (the cadet) daily physical training reflect these demands?”
If not in particular: How can you implement some of these working demand in your training day?
Group task:
Cadets individual task:
Group task:
Recap key ideas:
Training with purpose
Linking PT to leadership and mission-readiness
Share a 1-page “Cadet Combat Conditioning Plan Template”
Optional: Introduce a Squad Challenge to try pentathlon-style drills weekly
work demand - dig, crawl ect. and do we have valid tests which is associated with this working demand?
capacity analysis (are you on point?)
General demand
challenges of systematic training over time in a military context?